29: The 11th Rains Retreat (Kasibhāradvāja) – 1001
and destroy the crop of the various meritorious deeds that I, who am a
great farmer, possess.
[709]
Paraphrase: Brahmin, just as you, after doing the external (
bāhira
) work of
ploughing, with the hands or with the sickle, pull out and get rid of the weeds,
which are damaging to the crop, even so I, after doing the internal (
ajjhattika
)
work of spiritual ploughing, pull out and get rid of the following eightfold
ignoble speech, the weeds of falsehood:
1. To say “I see” when not seeing.
2. To say “I hear” when not hearing.
3. To say “I attain” when not attaining.
4. To say “I know” when not knowing.
5. To say “I see not” when seeing.
6. To say “I hear not” when hearing.
7. To say “I do not attain” when attaining.
8. To say “I do not know” when knowing.
On this eightfold ignoble speech, the weeds of falsehood, do I perform the
pulling out, cutting off and eradicating with the hands or the sickle of the
eightfold noble speech, the truthful words, such as:
1. To say “I see not” when seeing not.
2. To say “I hear not” when hearing not.
3. To say “I do not attain” when not attaining.
4. To say “I do not knownot” when not knowing.
5. To say “I see” when seeing.
6. To say “I hear” when hearing.
7. To say “I attain” when attaining.
8. To say “I know” when knowing.
Brahmin, your removal of the plough, your giving up of the field and your
retirement is not forever since you have to do the job of ploughing again in the
evening, next week or next year. My removal of the plough, my giving up the